NOTING resolution 26 of the International Conference on
Marine Pollution, 1973 which requested the appropriate body, designated
by the Organization, to establish the list of substances to be annexed
to the Protocol relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases
of Pollution by Substances Other Than Oil, 1973 (1973 Intervention
Protocol),
NOTING FURTHER resolution A.296(VIII) by which the Assembly
designated the Marine Environment Protection Committee (the Committee)
as the appropriate body referred to in Articles I and III of the 1973
Intervention Protocol,
RECALLING resolution MEPC.100(48) by which the Committee
adopted on 11 October 2002 a revised list of substances annexed to
the 1973 Intervention Protocol,
HAVING CONSIDERED the proposed amendments to the Annex to
the 1973 Intervention Protocol, which were approved by the fifty-fifth
session of the Committee and circulated in accordance with paragraph
2 of Article III of the 1973 Intervention Protocol,
1 ADOPTS, by the required two-thirds majority
of the Parties to the 1973 Intervention Protocol present and voting,
the amended list of substances annexed to the Protocol, the text of
which is set out at Annex to the present resolution;
2 REQUESTS the Secretary-General, in accordance
with paragraph 5 of Article III of the 1973 Intervention Protocol,
to communicate the amendments to all Parties to the Protocol, for
acceptance, and to inform them that the amendments shall be deemed
to have been accepted at the end of the period of six months after
they have been communicated, unless within that period an objection
to these amendments has been communicated to the Organization by not
less than one third of the Parties to the Protocol;
3 INVITES the Parties to note that, in accordance
with paragraph 7 of Article III of the 1973 Intervention Protocol,
the amendments shall enter into force three months after they have
been deemed to have been accepted in accordance with paragraph 2 above;
and
4 REQUESTS FURTHER the Secretary-General to annex
the amended list to the 1973 Intervention Protocol in accordance with
paragraph 2(a) of Article I of the Protocol, once the amendments have
entered into force, to replace the existing list of substances.